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True Colors · Phil Collins

EXERCISE 12 OF 17
Fill at bar 69 (a small one)
95 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play True Colors on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-98.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-6 and 8-14, and 24 more places -- 69.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---------|
True Colors -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 7, 24, 36, 45, 51 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is True Colors?

86 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is True Colors hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in True Colors?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 7, 24, 36, 45, 51 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED